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Researchers have grown vaginas in a lab, and the organs are working normally in four teenage patients who were among the first people to receive such an implant, scientists reported April 10, 2014. All of the patients in the study underwent surgery f...

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)'s Marissa Mayer is boosting the company's research unit, which was downsized under her predecessor -- betting on emerging technologies from big data to artificial intelligence. Yahoo Labs has hired 30 researchers with PhDs in 2013 ...

Did you know you can undo a sent e-mail in Gmail? It's a lesser known feature, but Google just made it even better than it was before. When it first launched, you were given a 5-second window during which you could hit "undo." Now that's up to 30 sec...

The web addresses of Google Maps that you shared with your friends used to be unmanageably huge, but Google has just solved that problem with a new Labs feature that dramatically shortens Maps URLs. The Maps URLs are hosted at Goo.gl, the search engi...

Gmail Labs, the experimental Gmail playground in which every Google engineer can write a Gmail feature, sometimes retires features that aren't used very much, and graduates commonly used features, turning them into regular Gmail features. Today, Gmai...

Here's a nice surprise from Google's Maps team: Just like Gmail, Google Maps now also has the Labs feature (it's the little green vial in the top right menu), which introduces experimental new features for you to try out. Right now, you can try out n...

You might not know this, but there's a hidden Labs widget in Gmail that lets you perform Google searches without leaving your e-mail interface. The news today is that it just got a whole slew of useful new features. Many Google employees get to spend...

Most Gmail users are familiar with Google Labs, a nifty set of experimental features which aren't quite ready to be rolled out to all users, but are good enough for a select subset of users who like to try out new things. According to Cnet's Natali D...

When I saw the words "multiple inboxes" on the official Gmail blog this morning, I was happy as a baby, because I thought we were finally getting the ability to have more than one Gmail account open in the same browser (currently I'm using the Gmail ...

You know how it goes: it's the weekend, all your friends are busy with their own affairs, you're bored and slightly inebriated, and what do you do: you come home and start sending e-mails you'll later probably regret. Actually, I'm more of an SMS sen...

Gmail blog has announced three new Gmail experiments you can try out, all three having to do with labels. Custom label colors lets you, well, choose custom colors for your labels, giving you far more options than the standard 24 color combinations. G...

As expected, Google is making some layoffs as it fully assimilates its recently acquired DoubleClick into its organization, according to The New York Times. With a global staff of 1,500 (1,200 of which reside in the US), DoubleClick had a sizable emp...

It looks like Snocap, the company tasked with selling music from MySpace's 3 million+ artists, has begun a major rollout. How else would you explain the 2000% growth in links to Snocap from MySpace profiles between the 2nd and 3rd week of February? (...

Kelvin Beecroft is the head of Mashable Labs, which conducts unique research into social networks, particularly widgets and other social networking add-ons. You can request research through the consulting form. As the end of 2006 approaches, it’s cle...

Pete's Note: I got seriously ill over the weekend, hence the lack of posts. I seem to be on the mend, so look out for some new stuff on Wednesday. ZingFu was reviewed here on Mashable in late August; about the time they rolled out changes to allow qu...

Kelvin Beecroft is the head of Mashable Labs, which conducts unique research into social networking add-ons. You can request data via the Consulting form. We've looked at some familiar segments for social networking add-ons over the past few weeks - ...

Kelvin Beecroft is the head of Mashable Labs, the only service currently providing detailed usage statistics for social networking add-ons. To request more data, please use the consulting form. MySpace profile layout site ModMyProfile has one of the ...

Mashable Labs has discovered another site now blocked by MySpace – VideoCodeZone. Data for October showed a dramatic drop in usage by MySpace users so I investigated to see what’s going on. Today I logged into MySpace and tried to add a link to Video...

Our data for September showed that MySpace users preferred YouTube for their video needs, posting a large number of clips to their pages. Now the October stats are in, and MySpace's own video service has eclipsed YouTube, growing 93.27% in one month....

Submitted by Kelvin Beecroft of Mashable Labs, edited by Pete Cashmore This week on Mashable we've covered three major markets for social networking add-ons: video-sharing, photo hosting and slideshows. We looked at MySpace specifically, because fran...

Certainly the most popular way to decorate a MySpace page is to add a photo - these are typically used for backgrounds, direct placement, contact tables, and comments. MySpace makes it easy to upload photos yet many users turn to external photo shari...

Look at only a few MySpace pages and it’s obvious that photo slideshows are popular with users. Slideshow creators can take photos from different sources and put them into a flash-based widget which flips, slides, scrolls, or fades through your favor...

We’ve been doing some heavy number crunching at Mashable Labs lately, so just for kicks we wanted to know what an average YouTube user looks like. We started by seeding a list with usernames of 100 active users on YouTube, like lonelygirl15. Then we ...

Kelvin Beecroft is a former Microsoft researcher and the head of Mashable Labs. Earlier this week I detected many fake MySpace login pages setup for phishing login credentials. I thought there was something important to report but after further inves...

A guest post from Kelvin Beecroft of Mashable Labs. Internet video has come of age. We watched for years as people tried to find a way to make Internet video useful. Sites like Movie.com were going to let us all watch movies over the Internet, but th...

This is the first post from Kelvin Beecroft, head of Mashable Labs. Mashable Labs conducts unique research into social networks, particularly MySpace and YouTube. For now, you can contact the Labs via the existing consulting page. MySpace gets lots o...

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